Check-perforator



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S. WINDBCKBR. GHEGK PBRFORATOR.

No. 524,454. Patented Aug. 14, 1894.

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s. WINDECKBR. CHECK PERFORATOR.

No. 524,454. Patented Aug. 14, 1894c ms gums Varens ou, morouTHo. wAsuwamn n c iUNITED STATES PATENT r OFFICE.

SAMUEL VVINDECKER, OF RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-PERFO RATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,454, dated August 14, 1894. Application led January 27, 1894. Serial No. l193,213. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WINDECKER,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverside, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Check-Perforators, of which the vfollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of'perforators employed for punctu ring in bank-checks, and the like, the amounts marked on their faces.

The object of my invention is to provide a perforator, in the class referred to, of novel and comparatively simple and inexpensive construction, to operate on the principle of pressing the check against a stationary perforating or punching character on a rotatably-adjustable head, the check being sup` ported in proper position thereto on an auto matically feeding reciprocable holder actuated by operating a handle to reciprocate the holder with relation to the head.

. Referring to the accompanyingdrawings Figure 1 shows my improved device by a view in side elevation, partly sectional. Fig. 42 is a front view of the same taken at the plane of the line 2 on Fig. 1 and regarded in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 3 is a section taken at the line 3 on Fig. 2 and viewed in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the check-holder adapted to be automatically fed across the perforating head. Fig. 5 is a broken plan View showing the feeding lever and detent for theholder. Fig. 6 is a plan View of a stationary guidespring through which to cause the perforating character on the head to protrude. Fig.

7 is a section taken at the line 7 on Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 8 is an end-view 4of the holder on its support. Fig. 9 is a view showing, in elevation, the lever-detail for operating against the holder to' advance it, and the releasing handle therefor.

A is a standard having a base B and ahead C provided with a seat r and an upward eX- tending rear bearing q, the seat inclining, by preference, slightly downward in abackward direction and the opening in the bearing q for the rotary shaft of the perforator-head, hereinafter described, being then correspondingly inclined.`

D is a shaft supported to rotate in the bearing q and provided, at'its end which protrudes behind the-bearing, with au operating handle D2 and carrying at its opposite end, to extend over the seat fr, the perforator-head D comprising a disk having at proper or equal intervals about its periphery characters p in relief and adapted to perforate, puncture or punch a sheet of paper forced against them. The characters I prefer to employ are the numbers from 0 to 9, and also the dollar-sign (SB) and a star or cross, both of which may be interposed between the numbers 9 and O. About the face of the disk are provided characters p', preferably of the same nature or denominations as those on the periphery, and so placed as to cause each of one denomination or indication to be in radial line with the character corresponding with it on the periphery.

On the rear surface of the disk I provide a series of radial grooves p2, at intervals apart corresponding with those between the characters p; and on the bearing gis aspring-bolt o normally projecting into a groove p2 to indicate by its click, and hold the disk yieldingly, when it is turned to bring a character p into position for perforating with it.

On the seat/r is a laterally hanged support o1., dovetail-shaped in cross-section and provided With a lower central stem fn. and an adjacent guide-pin '11.2, which work in bearingopenings in the head C, extending perpendicularly downward from the seat r, and through the medium of which the support may be reciprocated with relation to the perforator-head D above it, and guided in its re-V ciprocating movements.

E is the operating lever fulcrnmed in a slot min the front side of the head C and having, near its fulcrum, a nose Z engaging the stem 'n' at a recess Z therein, to reciprocate the stem and with it the support n by working the lever, the latter being compressible, to raise the support, against aspringk, the tendency of which is to hold the support yieldingly upon its seat fr.

A check-holder is provided comprising a pad t' which may be of hard rubber removably fastened upon a metal bar h having a series of ratchet-teeth h in its rear edge; and near opposite ends of the check-holder are spring clips g, g, extending transversely with IOO their open ends vpresented nearv the forward edge of and above the pad.` To the rear edge near one end of the reciprocable support n is fastened a spring detent f extending at its free end into the return path of the teeth h', between which and the detent there projects against the teeth the upperend of a feed-lever G, fulcrumed near its lower end on a pin t crossing a recess e in the head (land having, between its ends, a diagonal slot d in which works a stud cl projecting backward through it from the stem 'n'. In front of the lever G, just below the plane of the support n, is a finger d2 pivotally supported at one end to protrude at its opposite handle end beyond the recess e, t-o afford a medium for forcing the lever backward against the detentand thereby movingboth out of engagement with the ratchet-teeth to permit ,the check holder to be slid on its support back to the initial position.

On the seat r, at the back thereof, is fastened a leaf-spring c to extend thence transversely over the reciprocating pad c' and across the periphery of the rotary head1); and on the center of the spring is an opening c to coincide with each character p Vwhen brought into operative position.

The device is operated as follows: A check to be perforated is adjusted on the holder by inserting it under lthe clips g on the pad 'L'. Then the head D is turned to bring, success- Ai-vely, into line with the spring-opening c',

desired characters on the periphery of the disk; and each time a character is thus brought intoy position (the operator being guided by the character-representation on the face of the disk and prevented from unduly turning the perforator-head by the spring-bolt o engaging a groove p2) the leverE is compressed by thev operator against the spring lo. The coin pression of the lever, by the consequent rise of the nose Z, raises the support 'n and the checkholder thereon carrying the check, andpresses it against the spring c, thereby causing the opening c to encircle the coincident character p, against which the paper is pressed, and

which punches therein itsoutline. As the lever VE is released, the spring lc returns it to its normal position, in resuming which it carries down with it the check-holder. of the stem n lowers the stud d thereon in a straight line whereby it turns the lever Gr t0- ward the left on its pivot t. In turning, the

lever engages a tooth of the ratchet and thereturns the latter toward the right to engage atooth of the ratchet, against which to operate and feed the holder whenthe lever E is released. When the holder has been fed to its limit, it may be readily returned by sliding it, on thesupport n, back to its initial position,on operating the releasing linger d2.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a check-perforator, the combination with a standard and a rotatably adjustable Y head thereon carrying perforating characters on its periphery, of a support.l having a stem confined in the standard to be reciprocated perpendicularly withrelation to the periphery of the head, astud d on the stem, a check-holder reciprocally confined upon and surmounting said support and provided with ratchet-teeth, a feed-lever `fulcrumed on` the standard to engage at its free end said ratchet-teeth and having an inclined slot CZ into which said studV projects, a spring-detent engaging .the ratchet-teeth, and an loperating lever fulcrumed on the standard and engaging said stem to reciprocate it, substantially as described.

SAMUEL VVINDEOKERi In presence of- M. J. FROST, W. N. WILLIAMS.

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